This collection of scholarly papers is an ideal answer for teachers, lecturers, and professors faced with finding current research readings for their students in management, marketing and international business that are based on research from various countries. It is also valuable for practising managers who want a closer view of current writing in the areas covered in this book.

When Alma Gane moves in with her daughter Edna, son-in-law Jack and grand-daughter Betty, Edna realises it is more than just space her mother has taken from their home.
Shifting from the past to the present, the filial thread interweaves the events of this multigenerational family into a menacing pattern of unease.

Enjoying a well off comfortable life with her family in Australia, the author looks back at the life she endured during occupied Hungary in WWII and later. Mari takes us back to the years after that very dark period and allows us to travel through some parts of Europe, including the ruins of Pompeii, then to free, but austere Australia of the 1950s.

A young child faces the unknown.
The tragic death of her mother from Tuberculosis.
The uncertainty of the war years.
The hateful treatment of her sadistic stepmother not only to herself but to her father and her two sisters.
Yet still giving her the strength to grow into a capable person, with great hopes for the future.

It is 1920 and two babies come into the world in very different circumstances: Grace born of a violent union, but destined for a golden future, and Mike, a country boy with a talent for boxing, whose determination to succeed on his own terms brings him into conflict when he starts to make a name for himself.
The Birth of Aphrodite is a panoramic novel based on the myth of Aphrodite and Adonis.

The Japanese midget submarine raid on Sydney Harbour on the night of 31 May 1942 provoked real fear of enemy invasion of Australia — particularly following the bombing of Darwin a few months earlier. This book presents the graphic story behind the submarine attack on Sydney from both Australian and Japanese viewpoints.

Nowhere else in the world is there anything quite like it; and nothing is more beloved by Australians. Its appeal leaps across the generations, the sexes and all the social, political and religious persuasions. It is the one thing we all have in common: it is the great Australian meat pie.

"From the jungle's rich decay he is coaxing his own pale shoots of hope...Somewhere in there, waiting for him to discover it, lies the biochemical basis of happiness."
These powerful stories tear the veil from a fascinating world which touches us all - although we often try to shut it out. They blaze a trail not only into the real jungle of the title novella, but the chemical jungle of the brain.

Out there, suddenly pressed against a porthole, was Kolly. He wasn't swimming. He was dancing - a slow dance as the tide pushed him in. Around his neck was knotted cord. He was dead.
Old evils seep into the present as violence explodes again in the tropical north. The Japanese invasion, delayed in the Coral Se and at Midway, is advancing on all fronts. But what can Craig and Lawson do?

Why was part-Aboriginal lawyer Tony Grant brutally murdered in a lonely outback gorge?
What was the secret that threatened his beautiful Asian girlfriend Dana?
Ex-Policeman Rod Grant, the murdered man's white brother, probes deep into the Red Centre of Australia to expose the dark mysteries of the past - and to find the gruesome killer.

What really happened to Bomber Command navigator Brian Maxwell during the Second World War? Why is his widow so mysteriously silent on the subject of her late husband? To answer these questions, "Blue Angels" flashes back to the murderous kaleidoscopic days of the aerial battle over Europe. Deeper, at the core of the mystery lies the tale of a longer war between a man and a woman.

A tense psychological thriller.
Nick Andrews uncovers a macabre secret when he moves into the house on the cliff - a mystery which draws him into Black Bay's crumbling community of eccentrics and the insane. He gropes into the distant past - lured from Black Bay's ruined fort, its rocks carved with records of smallpox and bubonic plague, into a hidden sub-terranean world of cruelty and obsession.

Quinn lives alone, scarred by personal tragedy and recollections of a wartime massacre near a remote monastery in China, the Retreat of Radiance. After thirty years he plots a suicidal revenge against the perpetrator of the massacre, Keh, a former Chinese Civil War general who has made secret millions from heroin.

"Mota Koi!"
Slowly Tony walked to the edge of the platform. The Jap they called Rat-face made a long speech. Patiently, Tony listened. Suddenly Rat-face kicked him violently in the stomach - a silly thing to do, Tony thought in a detached way, to a man suffering from dysentery. Bent double with pain, Tony fell against the opposite bed platform and fouled the hut. At this there were angry outcries.

Palmer Lingard is
The Queenslander.
Palmer Lingard grew up in a quiet respectable suburb, in the Brisbane of the 1950s. He is emerging from the sunny, secure world of childhood into the vulnerability of adolescent self-consciousness, romanticism, and insistent, baffling sexuality; a charmed time, when fantasy and reality can magically overlap, and hideously clash;

For two days in November 1942, the city of Brisbane became a war zone when Australian servicemen attacked American troops. Drawing on eyewitness accounts and unpublished documents, the authors strip away the sentimental gloss to reveal the startling truth about the shameful 48 hours when the Allies went to war with each other.